U.N. Summit for Refugees & Migrants Creates New Urgency for Global Crisis of 65 Million Displaced
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Bump it!The first-ever United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants has produced a declaration for 193 member countries to conduct a more coordinated and humane response to the biggest migration upheaval since World War II. We get response from Mohammed Badran, co-founder of Syrian Volunteers in the Netherlands, who spoke at the summit; Manfred Lindenbaum, a Holocaust survivor and advocate for refugees; and Raymond Offenheiser, president of the international humanitarian and development organization Oxfam America.
Read more http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/21/un_summit_for_refugees_migrants_creates
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